Graduation is an opportunity, and no students who have spent the past two or more years here at Seward working their butts off for their degrees should miss it.
Although we all believe graduation is a big deal, there are mixed feelings even on the Crusader staff about spending the price for attire required for walking at graduation. With tax added, it costs anywhere from $39 to $70 for the mix of buying and renting the graduation getup –– $22 for the cap and gown, $9 for the tassel, $11 for honor cords, $5 to rent the stole, and don’t forget the added $20 fee if you bought the Phi Theta Kappa stole. Yikes!
But here’s the deal. As a staff, we agree students should think outside the box. If 40 bucks (plus) is out of your budget...
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“Let’s see, I have my chemistry book, speech book, notebooks, paper, pens, what am I missing? Oh, yeah, my concealed weapon.”
This may come to be a normal routine when getting packed for school in the morning for those with concealed weapons.
House Bill 2685, a bill our state legislature is considering voting into effect would allow a person with a proper license to carry a concealed weapon into any municipality or state facility.
This includes community colleges and universities.
Not only would students be allowed to bring their “gat” to school, but teachers and visitors alike.
Sounds great two years after Virginia Tech.
If you’re as skeptical as we are, there is a way to prevent people from walking into our school...
Students, faculty and others connecting to the Internet via the college may have been facing online problems, as certain Web sites have been blocked. However, these problems were due to the change of the firewall and a new content filter.
The new content filter is a little bit pickier, according to computer technical support specialist Ed Hall. His main concern is to edit the new content filter to how it used to be. The content filter is what allows or blocks Web sites.
If a campus Internet user accesses a site which they feel shouldn’t be blocked; they can contact the information technology department. They can help get the site unblocked if it does not violate the college’s policy. According to Hall, the problem should be...
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Recently the student government association has decided to direct between $8,000 and $10,000 towards revamping the student union with things such as a new television, new furniture and a new ping pong table so that more students will use the student union, and we think they’re on to something.
Not nearly enough students use our Student Union. With or without a flat screen television, the Student Union is a great place for students who are not in class to hang out and there’s plenty of reasoning to back us up.
We’ve all been sitting in a lecture classroom at some point or another when some loudmouth has decided to camp out outside the classroom oblivious to the fact that he or she is interrupting an entire class talking about...
Every year the standard, common flu kills more than 35,000 people on average. This year a new influenza virus is attacking the human population worldwide.
The H1N1 flu virus is a new strand of the former “swine” flu. Unlike the standard flu that affects mostly younger children and the elderly, this flu hits the middle-of-the-road age groups and can affect anyone seriously.
The Crusader staff would like our student body to know that the average age of infected H1N1 patients is 17-years-old. Although most Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School students are older, 17 is an average and places college students in the mean of infected cases.
To prepare for the flu and protect yourself, take certain precautions.
Wash...
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Friday, 16 April 2010 | 
Written by Editors |
